Cod, a popular Irish fish, is coated with an Irish whiskey sauce for a quick dinner that is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day or for any quick dinner. Fresh chives add flavor and green color to celebrate the day.

Supper is over and we have had evening devotions. All the children have gone their own way now — some to bed and some reading, writing or just relaxing. I love evenings like this, when everyone is close by. Every mother has those moments, I’m sure.

When my editor asked if our team had any recipes to share for our month of “Craving: Chinese Food,” I confidently raised my hand and blurted out, “Three-cup chicken.” After all, not only is the popular Taiwanese dish a comforting and flavorful meal that more people should know about, it would also require the absolute least amount of investigative work possible for me. Win-win!

When my editor asked if our team had any recipes to share for our month of “Craving: Chinese Food,” I confidently raised my hand and blurted out, “Three-cup chicken.” After all, not only is the popular Taiwanese dish a comforting and flavorful meal that more people should know about, it would also require the absolute least amount of investigative work possible for me. Win-win!

Brighten up your winter with this chicken cooked with rum and pineapple. It’s a recipe I found on a recent vacation to the Caribbean island of Martinique. The French/Creole cuisine there creates intriguing, flavorful dishes. Rum is part of their culture and they like to use old rum, but any rum will work for this quick dish.

We have entered the month of March, and it is definitely coming in like a lion. It is rainy, cold and windy here in our part of Michigan. We had several nice sunny days with temperatures hitting the upper 50s and lower 60s. It spoiled us and we really wanted it to stay. It sounds like we might get more snow though, so we better just be patient.

Renato Viola gained entry into the United States under an O-1 visa for temporary workers as an "individual who possesses extraordinary ability," similar to the EB-1 visa that granted Melania Trump entry. The award-winning Italian pizza chef opened Mister O1 Extraordinary Pizza in Miami Beach, Brickell and Wynwood.

Egg foo young, the classic Chinese-American puffed omelet, was just one of the dishes we served under silver domes at Chinese Pagoda, the chop suey restaurant on the Northwest Side of Chicago owned by my aunt and uncle.